Wolters Kluwer Enablon software

Globalization, worldwide supply chains, new environmental, social and ethical standards, fears about product safety, consumers and NGOs’ pressure: companies now live in an environment where supply chain management is both increasingly challenging and decisive in terms of business performance and risk prevention. Corporate responsibility is now extending beyond the company’s boundaries to include the global supply chain. The “supplier risk” threatens at any time companies’ brands, reputation, security and business continuity. Without efficient and reliable systems to measure, manage and improve sustainability performance at all levels of the supply chain, companies are at risk and unable to react to crisis.

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a supply chain issue due to the global nature of commerce, the corporate strategic partnerships and intermingled business processes between upstream suppliers, manufacturers and customers. Global Industry Initiatives and multi-stakeholders organizations need powerful systems linking these parties together to help them assess their performance and compliance level, share information, improve the efficiency of their operations and reduce environmental and social impact.